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[HG1973]

I'm curious to know something about the 'Art'. I believe my perception of what it is all about ,might be wrong or even right, but I'm only going on what I know from past Myst games/published novels.

I know that in Uru references have said that the D'ni created their fantastic ages through the Art of Writing. Yet if you read the books or play one of the older games it states that the D'ni wrote books that linked to the unlimited possibilites that exist in the universe. Meaning that these worlds/ages were actually already in existance, but somehow became linked with the D'ni books. So which is right?

[HG1973]

I'm curious to know something about the 'Art'. I believe my perception of what it is all about ,might be wrong or even right, but I'm only going on what I know from past Myst games/published novels.

I know that in Uru references have said that the D'ni created their fantastic ages through the Art of Writing. Yet if you read the books or play one of the older games it states that the D'ni wrote books that linked to the unlimited possibilites that exist in the universe. Meaning that these worlds/ages were actually already in existance, but somehow became linked with the D'ni books. So which is right?

[Cupelix]

I've kind of gotten the impression that it was some sort of mixture of both?

One of the stories you come across in over the course of Uru metions a certain king being surprised at an age having inhabitants; it also mentions that ages which appeared to already be inhabited were traditionally supposed to be off limits to the D'ni (if I remember/read it properly).

[HG1973]

Yeah I saw that journal aswell. That's one of the reasons I started this thread.

So if I use that info along with my past references than I get this?

If the D'ni write a book that links to a age(world) that has animals/people already existing in it that were not written in intentionally, than that age is a physical world that already exsists somewhere and if not than it's an age solely created by the writer.

Makes you wonder if these ages are mini-verses or alternate dimensions or just places in our own universe.

Fascinating stuff.

[Dillenger69]

I think it boiled down to a matter of belief.
Some believed that the writing created the age.
Some believed that the writing just linked to an existing reality.
I tend to believe that the writing just establishes a link to an exitsting place.

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[Neejit]

I think this one: http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums?a=t...2108&m=6311041 a thread from the DRC forum, is woth checking out if you want to learn more about the subject. It's a long read, but very interesting.

- Neejit

[HG1973]

Awesome link Neejit. Thanks

[m-bailey]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Dillenger69:
I think it boiled down to a matter of belief.
Some believed that the writing created the age.
Some believed that the writing just linked to an existing reality.
I tend to believe that the writing just establishes a link to an exitsting place.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Which is probably why some of the D'ni (those that believed the writing created the age) believed they had more power and control over an age than they really did.

[Tanernin]

I seem to remember an instructor of young Gehn telling his pupils that the D'ni created their Ages in the Book of Ti'ana. Thus, it would seem that even D'ni thought was divided, at least to some extent.

[Moleculor]

There are actually stories of people who Wrote an Age, went there, taking a Linking Book back to D'ni with them to leave behind in the Age so that they could actually return.

Upon their return they decided to change something in the Book. Sometimes those people were skilled enough to Write in changes that didn't contradict what was already there, and would usually succeed in making the alterations with no problems of any kind.

But if such people were not excrutiatingly wary of such changes, they could link back to the Age to find that the world they linked to was a different one (that looked almost identical) and their Linking Book (and any other changes they had brought with them) was gone.